Car Decorations and Accesories in Japan

Danny Choo is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. Danny resides in Tokyo, and blogs about life in Japan and Japanese subculture - he also works part time for the empire.
The word Itasha describes a car that has been plastered with stickers of anime (Japanese cartoons) or eroge (Japanese dating sims) characters.
"Itasha" literally means "painful car" and comes from the feeling that one would usually be painfully embarrassed to drive around in one. "Itasha" also means Italian Car.
You can see a whole bunch of these Itasha that I snapped a while ago.
But, not only are some Japanese folks most creative when it comes to decorating their car, they be also creative when it comes to car accessories too - as you can see from the photo below...
Would you drive around in an Itasha?

I suspect that driving around the typical small town in the US with images of underage girls showing their panties plastered all over the hood would not go over real well.

Here in the United States we tend to keep those kind of obsessions a little more underground, not that they don’t exist, mind you, we tend to be a bit more secretive about it. The exception may be that, in Hell, Michigan, there is actually an annual “Underage Girls Show Your Panties” festival each summer, just after the Halloween season ends.

The farthest I think I’d EVER go is to stick a little U.N. Spacy decal in my rear window, assuming I even deigned to do that. This is just … wow …

On the upside, maybe this place wouldn’t be quite as ridiculous on laws if people were more open about this sort of thing. Let the public ridicule take care of it if it hasn’t breached the criminality threshold >.>

I can see these graphics in the US on tuner cars. Don’t get me
wrong, I would do something similar but not to that extream.
Reading the comments & looking at the photo. Makes me think of
the S2000 in 2 Fast 2 Furious movie.